Rose Nolan (born 1959) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne with work held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.[1][2] She makes work in a variety of material forms: books, small sculptures, photographs, posters, paintings, banners, multiples and large-scale installations. A reduced palette of red and white is characteristic of her work. She uses raw and inexpensive materials, such as hessian and cardboard; with the work displaying an unmistakable sense of personal labour through its handmade aesthetic.[3][4]

Career edit

Nolan was a member of the group of artists who formed ‘Store 5’, a loose experimental collective and artist run space based in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993.[5] She was one of a group of Australian artists who were part a loose cooperative and space connected to the experimental Store 5 Melbourne ARI between 1989 and 1993.[3] The Store 5 artists shared an interest in the traditions of non-objective art, a form of art that relinquishes describing the exterior world in favour of examining the artwork in its material form.[4] Frequent tropes include language, concentrating on the linguistic qualities of words and their connection to architectural space as a material form .[3] Additionally conceptual art, as well the aesthetics of Russian constructivism which adopts the language of abstraction and revolutionary aesthetics and its relationship to a pragmatic utilitarian approach to art, architecture and design with utopian, even revolutionary, social ideals continue to inform Nolan's work today.[3][4] Since the 1980s Nolan has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally.[2] Nolan is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.[3]

Selected exhibitions edit

Selected shows include

Selected reviews edit

Reviews include

  • The national, New Australian Art, Kelly McDonald, Big Words – To keep going, breathing helps (circle work), (2017)[16]
  • Rose Nolan, With all one’s might and main, Chris McAuliffe, Project Space, RMIT, 1996, (2014)[17]
  • Un Projects, Carolyn Barnes, Conflicted Territory: Aesthetics and practices in the work of Melinda Harper, Anne-Marie May, Rose Nolan and Kerrie Poliness, 2012) [18]
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection Handbook, An orange constructed one, (2006)[19]
  • Frieze, Sue Cramer, Forever, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, Australia, (2002)[20]

Selected publications edit

  • Big Words (Not Mine) – Read the words 'public space'... Published by Negative Press, (2017)[21]
  • Enough, Rose Nolan, Limited edition, Published by Negative Press (2016)[22]
  • Rose Nolan, Why Do We Do The Things We Do, 2011, Eds.: Blair French, Robert Leonard, Published by Artspace Sydney and Institute of Modern Art. (2011)[23]

References edit

  1. ^ "Rose Nolan | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Rose Nolan | Artist Profile, Exhibitions & Artworks | Ocula". ocula.com. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rose Nolan | Anna Schwartz Gallery". Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Rose Nolan | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  5. ^ "In Conversation: Stephen Bram, John Nixon and Rose Nolan – Saturday 1 June, 11.30am". Buxton Contemporary. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  6. ^ Council, Moreland City. "f_OCUS". Moreland City Council. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  7. ^ "BAUHAUS NOW!". Buxton Contemporary. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Rose Nolan". Monash University Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  9. ^ "ARTBANK". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  10. ^ a b c "Rose Nolan · Events at The University of Melbourne". events.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Australian Centre for Contemporary Art". acca.melbourne. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  12. ^ "MINUS SPACE | MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales, Multiple Cultural Venues, Oaxaca, Mexico". www.minusspace.com. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Rose Nolan: Whenever". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  14. ^ "The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s". The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  15. ^ a b Nolan, Rose (2019). "Nolan CV" (PDF). Anna Schwartz Gallery. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Artists | The National". the-national.com.au. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Chris McAuliffe Art Writing Music". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Conflicted Territory: Aesthetics and practices in the work of Melinda Harper, Anne-Marie May, Rose Nolan and Kerrie Poliness - un Magazine 6.1 - un Projects". unprojects.org.au. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  19. ^ "An orange constructed one, (1993) by Rose Nolan". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  20. ^ Cramer, Sue. "Rose Nolan". Frieze. No. 70. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  21. ^ "009 Rose Nolan". Negative Press. Archived from the original on 15 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  22. ^ Nolan, Rose; Negative Press, publisher. (2016). Enough (Limited ed.). Melbourne : Negative Press. ISBN 978-0-9944139-5-6.
  23. ^ Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art. "Rose Nolan: Why Do We Do The Things We Do". Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 13 March 2020.